Colleges help students scrub online footprints

Published December 31, 2012 3:08pm ET



BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Samantha Grossman wasn’t always thrilled with the impression that emerged when people Googled her name.

“It wasn’t anything too horrible,” she said. “I just have a common name. There would be pictures, college partying pictures, that weren’t of me, things I wouldn’t want associated with me.”

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